Re: [tor-dev] Specification for 'How to Safely Sign a statement with a .onion key'

2014-11-25 Thread grarpamp
Some hidden services have been signing various things with their HS keys. Even benefit may exists from moving from 1024 to 4k+ and add passphrased startup option while keeping 80bit for now. There may already be ticket on this area. ___ tor-dev mailing li

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
Fabio Pietrosanti - lists writes: > On 10/20/14 3:37 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for >> SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR > [snip] >> >> ==

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
Jeremy Rand writes: > On 11/25/2014 06:19 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: >> George Kadianakis writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for >>> SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: >>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/spons

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-11-25 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2014 06:19 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > George Kadianakis writes: > >> Hello, >> >> this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for >> SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/to

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics

2014-11-25 Thread A. Johnson
Hi George, > I posted an initial draft of the proposal here: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007863.html > Any feedback would be awesome. OK, I’ll have a chance to look at this in the next few days. > Specifically, I would be interested in undertanding the concept

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
"A. Johnson" writes: > Hello all, > > > >> We put in some simple obfuscations in order to not reveal too >> sensitive data: we multiplied actual values with a random number in >> [0.9, 1.1] before including those obfuscated values in extra-info >> descriptors. Maybe there's something smarter we

[tor-dev] Proposal draft: Better hidden service stats from Tor relays

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello there, I inline a copy of a proposal we've been working on lately. Discussion can be found in the "Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics" thread. The proposal suggests that Tor relays add some stats about hidden service usage. We believe that these stats are not dangerous and ca

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-11-25 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti - lists
On 10/20/14 3:37 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Hello, > > this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for > SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR [snip] > > == Performance Improvements == > > This is the mo

Re: [tor-dev] New documentation for Tor Metrics website

2014-11-25 Thread Harmony
Karsten Loesing: >> 1. "Statistics include subsets of relays or bridges by...country code >> (only relays and only until February 2013)..." >> >> Do you mean here "from the beginning of time until Feb '13" or "from >> present day back as far as Feb '13"? I guess it would be clear from >> context, b

Re: [tor-dev] New documentation for Tor Metrics website

2014-11-25 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 24/11/14 18:58, Harmony wrote: > Karsten Loesing: >> Dear list, > > Dear Karsten! Dear Harmony! >> writing documentation is hard work. I'm sure you already knew that, but >> let me re-assure you that I now believe it, too. At least until I >> forget it again and carelessly start documenting

Re: [tor-dev] high latency hidden services

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
Michael Rogers writes: > On 09/11/14 18:33, Mansour Moufid wrote: >> Has there been research on integrating high-latency message >> delivery protocols with the hidden service model of location >> hiding? The SecureDrop or Pynchon Gate protocols sound like good >> starting points. I would love to

Re: [tor-dev] Potential projects for SponsorR (Hidden Services)

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
George Kadianakis writes: > Hello, > > this is an attempt to collect tasks that should be done for > SponsorR. You can find the SponsorR page here: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorR > FWIW, I skimmed the thread and collected all the tasks that were proposed: h

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on obfuscating hidden-service statistics

2014-11-25 Thread George Kadianakis
"A. Johnson" writes: >> Roger's branch was a PoC that wrote stats on the log file. I don't >> think we have newer data than what is in #13192. It's unclear whether >> the relays stopped collecting statistics, or they just haven't updated >> the trac ticket. > > If we could check on that and get t